Question

I’m reading different forums for hours but I want to understand what is getting GarbageCollected on onPause.

1. I’ve got a ListView with a custom Adapter (ImageView+Textview) and it’s getting filled with an ArrayList
2. After onPause is called the view is empty although the ArrayList with Objects is still there.

So, in onResume I try to create a new Adapter to fill the ListView once more.
I also use the Holder pattern and I noticed that View convertView was cleared in onPause.

Could someone tell me why it is not working to set the following in onResume() with arraylist still filled with objects?

adapter = new MyAdapter(this, R.layout.listview_item, arraylist);
myView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.main_ListView_items);
myView.setAdapter(adapter);

I also tried to store all fields adapter, myView and arraylist in the MyApplication extends Application class but with the same result.

A blank ListView appears after running->onPause->onResume ->running

Answer 1

I think I got it. I had setContentView(R.layout.main) in onConfigurationChanged one more time, so after onPause I had a blank contentView :)) Sometimes you spend hours of your precious life for such dumb errors..